well I'll be damned. you know, I am not sure I knew how old the protags were. they seemed young to me, but you are right, they aren't 14 or anything.
What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!
'Just Rewards (2)'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
le nubian - Sep 06, 2012 2:33:21 pm PDT #19675 of 28343
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Steph L. - Sep 06, 2012 2:44:46 pm PDT #19676 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I haz Skulduggery Pleasant! There goes my weekend.
Polter-Cow - Sep 06, 2012 2:49:47 pm PDT #19677 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
they seemed young to me, but you are right, they aren't 14 or anything.
I think they're all mid- to late-twenties.
Liese S. - Sep 06, 2012 3:03:27 pm PDT #19678 of 28343
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ok, so now I need the Time to Read feature to extrapolate and turn the pages for me, at the rate I've been going in my current book. So it can let me blaze through easy read stuff and then give me more time for Jacques Ellul or whatever.
We can do this, peoples, we have the technology!
Jessica - Sep 07, 2012 7:46:21 am PDT #19679 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I could have used the Time To Read feature last night - I got into bed last night to read without realizing I was three pages from the end of the book. (Granted, I could have looked at the percentage last night and noticed I was 98% done, BUT STILL.)
Polter-Cow - Sep 07, 2012 7:59:15 am PDT #19680 of 28343
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
98% is misleading, though! You don't know if the book actually goes to 100% or not. Like the Sherlock Holmes books I have are from Project Gutenberg, so at the end is all the copyright information and whatnot, so the books actually end in the 90% range.
It's like how I have to check each ASOIAF book to figure out when all the damn appendices start so I can gauge when I'll hit the end of the actual book.
le nubian - Sep 07, 2012 8:53:03 am PDT #19681 of 28343
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
flea - Sep 07, 2012 9:55:31 am PDT #19682 of 28343
information libertarian
The thing is, Roth is mad that the Wikipedia article states that his character is alleged to have been inspired by Broyard. But that is a fact; several prominent reviews of the books suggested the inspiration might have been Broyard, including Kakutani in the Times; there are links in the current version of the Wikipedia article. Philip Roth can (and, obviously does) argue that the character was not inspired by Broyard. But Wikipedia is (and was) not wrong when it states that it was alleged that the character was inspired by Broyard.
So, Philip Roth is an ass, but then, I thought that anyway.
Ginger - Sep 07, 2012 3:38:37 pm PDT #19683 of 28343
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
A book called By the Blood of Heroes: The Great Undead War: Book I is being described by B&N as "zombie/historical military/steampunk."
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2012 11:39:19 am PDT #19684 of 28343
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So what I fail entirely to understand--if you flip forward in a "real" book to find the next chapter--why don't you just do that in an e-book? That's why I asked how you were doing it before, because I assumed it was some way (I couldn't fathom) that couldn't be duplicated electronically.
I don't really see the problem, especially considering it's easier to get back to where you were up to reading.